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often at great risk, just to open God's word. Once a year, over 50,000 believers around the world gather online

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Exodus chapter 20, verses 2 and 3.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

You shall have no other gods before me.

Hopefully these words are familiar to you.

They are the first words in the Ten Commandments.

As God states who he is, he uses the name, the Lord Yahweh that he had revealed to Moses

and to his people, the covenant name that represents his love for his people, his loyalty to his

people, his faithfulness, his mercy, his kindness, his goodness, which is why

God says, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house

of slavery. He is the savior of his people, the provider for his people, the sustainer and

satisfier of his people. So the first thing

he commands them is, verse 3, you shall have no other gods. Little G. God's before me. When you think

about this, it's humbling, isn't it? Of course, there's only one true God. Of course,

God's people would not worship other gods, right? But that's what's humbling. You and I are tempted,

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